See how similar Microsoft's plan is to SCO's (its proxy).
SCO out, VMware in
,----[ Quote ]
| SCO's tactics in this fiasco have been to try to scare corporate Linux
| users into buying SCO's protection licenses to avoid possible future
| litigation and creating a smoke screen of doubt in the Linux market.
| In the process the company has seen its revenue collapse while it
| burns through cash reserves.
|
| [...]
|
| SCO will eventually shrivel up and blow away but not before it has wasted our
| time, wasted its shareholders' money and gained the enmity of everyone in the
| computer business.
`----
http://www.networkworld.com/power/2005/122605-gibbs.html
When Microsoft Met GPLv3
,----[ Quote ]
| Bug fixes is code, folks. Ditto revisions, enhancements, localizations,
| updates, upgrades and modifications. Now tell me Microsoft, had they not run
| for the exit, wouldn't have been distributing software under GPLv3, let alone
| conveying or propagating. Puh lease.
|
| I think after reading all this, you can see why the company decided to try to
| scrape the Novell vouchers off of its shoes like toilet paper stuck to the
| bottom. But with the vouchers having no expiration dates, I really wonder if
| what they have done is enough. So when I read Microsoft's statement that it
| isn't bound by GPLv3, I'd call it hopeful optimism that the changes they've
| announced will help them retreat from what would inevitably have been a huge
| GPLv3 impact. I read it as saying, *Now* we aren't bound, any more, because
| we stopped doing what we were doing that would have bound us."
`----
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827
|
|
